Desmond Clarke

Desmond M. Clarke (17 January 1942 – 4 September 2016) was an Irish author and professor of philosophy at University College Cork (UCC).

Clarke was born in Dublin and earned his leaving certificate from Synge Street CBS.

[3] Clarke was the founder and a general editor of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy.

76 volumes have been published with new translations of non-English texts from ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Italian and German.

Clark died on 4 September 2016 at Our Lady's Hospice in the Harold's Cross suburb of Dublin.